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Summary: The Miss Dennis School of Writing The essay “The Miss Dennis School of Writing” was written by Alice Steinbach, a freelance writer and a Pulitzer Prize winner. Alice wrote about her ninth-grade creative teacher, who gave her lessons not only on her writing but also on her life. Alice started the essay with a conversation between a reporter and her to recall Miss Dennis. The writer firstly supported the writing lessons Miss Dennis had taught her by recalling some of the sentences and stories of the teacher during her writing classes. Alice presented several skills taught by Miss Dennis such as asking them to pay attention to and to think about the things which are going on around them and telling them that good descriptive writing makes the reader see what the writer see. The teacher also taught her students to find their unique personal voices. Then the writer moved on to the impacts Miss Dennis had made on her life through narrating Miss Dennis ‘s encouraging her to the writing contest, which made her more confident and also the private conversation about the death of the writer’s father, after which they made a special relationship. Alice also mentioned their common interest on Emily Dickinson’s poems and the present given by Miss Dennis at the end of that year, which is cherished by her although it is now pretty old and broken. The writer showed her respect and miss of her writing teacher with simple but descriptive words. She narrated the previous memories between her teacher and her detailed and vividly, making we readers see and feel what she saw and experienced, just like Miss Dennis has taught
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